“Winter never feels truly at home in New Orleans. An unwelcomed visitor that shows up long enough to remind us of what we're missing, then leaves us just in time for us to forget again.”GABRIEL MACHT (Lawson Pines)

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)

“He can make a lovely corpse!”CHARLES DICKENS (1812-70)

“We cannot tear out a single page of our lives, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”GEORGE SAND (1804-76)

“We die only once, and for such a long time.”MOLIÈRE (1622-73)

“Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud.”DYLAN THOMAS (1914-53)